A Man of Vision

Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences Fifty Years Later

by Robert A. Preston

I first read Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver sometime
in the late sixties. For me, being trained in scholastic philosophy, and always
struggling to make the subject of metaphysics understandable and relevant to
college students, it was an answer to prayers. For almost 30 years, Ideas
has been a companion text to one of the traditional textbooks on Thomistic metaphysics
in my course, and it has been a most happy marriage, at least for me, if not
for my students. But I hope that I am not being unduly optimistic when I say
that, for most of my students, Weaver became a guide to thei
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